I feel vindicated by your love letter to LOVE, my partner has made fun of me ever since I said it was my favorite on the album. You’re so right though, just because it’s a little cheesy and more mainstream doesn’t make it bad. Back to having it stuck in my head.

Hats off to Oluo for making me (and so many of us) see this over-hyped story in a totally new light. For the first time I was struck by how Dolezal seemingly sought out the community of blackness when she felt like she was rejected from whiteness (by which she really means wealthy whiteness). Maybe it’s because I…

“How is she different from someone who is transgender?”

I got lucky and had an easy pregnancy. I was exhausted and ill during a pregnancy that ended in miscarriage, I couldn’t have pulled off a marathon that time!

I’m so impressed by her, just floored. I signed up to run my first marathon a week before I learned I was pregnant, ran it at 9 weeks. Being pregnant slowed me down sooooo much, in part because your heart has so much more blood to pump. Not to mention all the pee breaks that become necessary when a wee human is…

And it’s no coincidence that poison is depicted as a woman’s weapon.

Loved. That. Book. The idea of this morphine addicted teenager feigning the role of an immortal widower! I re read it a few years ago, it really holds up.

Excited to read this! We think of Paris as being so backward at that time but in the minds of 17th century cops they were CSI-levels of scientific! I was very struck by that when reading a report on poisons from the Affair of Poisons era at the Bibliotheque Arsenal. The Parisian cops had a box of substances found on a…

I knew I was going the natural childbirth route, and expected a long labor, so I thought a playlist would help keep me calm and focused on my breathing during the long process, especially during the early stages of labor. Cut yo me being in the early stages of labor and having NO IDEA I was in labor. By the time I got…

Well I did go running at my gym a week before I went into labor. I’m sure I appalled a lot of folks who saw me jogging in my third trimester.

Congrats! Let my story be a cautionary tale. And don’t sweat it too much, it’s not like all teachers can manage to have babies in the summer!

Yep, we planned to put together a playlist, were told to bring our own wireless speakers. But then Baby is a Construct decided to arrive one month early and we were caught unprepared.

Our baby has yet to show a marked preference for Run the Jewels (we were obsessed with it in the last months before she was born), but who knows? She certainly responds to my voice, and she heard me give lectures roughly 12 hours a week for 3 months.

I’m not going to judge, my labor playlist was basically going to just be Lemonade, some Fleetwood Mack, and “Eye of the Tiger.” Too bad I went into labor during the Lady Gaga halftime show, and feared I was going to give birth while the Super Bowl trophy ceremony was playing in the E.R. So few people actually get to…

Please yes, I will feel so vindicated for the years I have spent telling folks that she is at least a little gay.

My iron levels have improved and I’ve been less bruise prone, you might be right!

Thank you for this. Princesses aren’t just gendered, they are symbols of class and authority! I’m fine with glitter, but we will not rule over other people in our household! But most importantly, thank you for reminding me of this song. Off to make a lullaby playlist of the Coup and Dead Prez.

Don’t be so hard on yourself, that last month is rough enough and you’re retaining water like crazy! It’s really challenging to feel alienated from your own body, which can happen during pregnancy and while nursing. Congrats and good luck!

Yep, this is perfect timing as I just got upset earlier today about how the scale has been static since basically 2 weeks post-baby. Whenever I find myself being critical of my post-baby body I try to tell myself that that I need to curb those thoughts because I would never want my little baby girl to have similar…

and it would just KILL Donny to have an older woman playing Melamia. she is a trophy to him, nothing more, she had to be perceived as beautiful (which in his mind meAns young) of he is a failure.